9:22 PM,
Oct. 6, 2012

'The Casual Vacancy' by J.K. Rowling, Little, Brown, $35, 503 pages.

Written by

Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm

There'll be photos and memorabilia, money, bric-a-brac and property to divvy up. Great-grandma's china goes here, your mother's jewelry there and a cherished belonging of your father's will become someone else's cherished belonging.

When you're dead and gone, you'll leave many things behind because you can't take them with you - although, in the new novel "The Casual Vacancy" (Little, Brown, $35, 503 pages) by J.K. Rowling, some wished that Barry Fairbrother had. ...